Requirement of a cell division step for stalk formation in Caulobacter crescentus.

AUTOR(ES)

Terrana, B

RESUMO

Penicillin G at low concentrations blocked cell division in Caulobacter crescentus without inhibiting cell growth. The long filamentous cells formed after two to three generations under these conditions had a stalk at one pole and usually one or more flagella at the opposite pole. The failure of the filaments to form a second stalk at the flagellated pole indicates that stalk formation was dependent upon completion of a step that was also required for cell division. Two observations support this conclusion. (i) Penicillin did not stop the normal development of synchronous swarmer cells into stalked initiation and stalk elongation. (ii) When the action of penicillin was reversed by the addition of penicillinase to cultures of filaments, stalks were not formed at the nonstalked pole until after cell division had occurred; thus the normal order of development events was maintained: cell division leads to stalk formation. These results are consistent with a model in which the organization of the developmental program for stalk formation occurs before cell division as a consequence of steps that branch from the cell division pathway.

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